20 things that have happened since Arsenal last won a trophy

1. Arsene Wenger has earned over £50m in wages

As Chelsea and Manchester City will tell you; if something isn't working, just throw money at the problem until it does. Arsenal have taken this to heart in their "socialist" wage structure.

Arsene Wenger, still searching for the trophy to untangle that weighty albatross from around his club's sweaty neck, is now earning upwards of £7 million per year for managing the north Londoners. Not bad for a socialist paradise - it puts his total earnings in the eight years since his last piece of silverware at an impressive estimate of £56m. Maybe he just needs an extra tenner to get it right...

20 things that have happened since Arsenal last won a trophy

20 things that have happened since Arsenal last won a trophy

By George Ankers

May 21, 2005. That was the last time that Arsenal celebrated with a trophy in the air and champagne spraying willy-nilly all over the place.

It seems a long time now since that FA Cup triumph - mainly because it has indeed been quite a long time. With the Gunners facing Blackburn in the fifth round of this year's cup, their hopes cautiously growing, Goal.com investigates just how much has gone on since those heady days.